Articles Tagged: University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital

Staff at the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital participated in an emergency drill Friday that allowed them to practice their response protocols for a mass casualty event.

Although most studies measuring premature-baby outcomes start at 22 and 23 weeks — reporting U.S. survival rates between 10 and 20 percent at that gestation — University of Iowa Health Care is among the few hospital systems that take on babies at 21 weeks.

With crews in the midst of replacing nearly every window encasing its eight-year-old Stead Family Children’s Hospital, the University of Iowa on Tuesday announced it has won a $49.4 million arbitration award in its complaint over the defective windows.

The oft-cited Cancer in Iowa report that for several years has found the state to have the second-highest and fastest-growing rate of new cancers in the nation next year will start breaking out pediatric numbers.

That bigger Children’s Hospital window replacement budget — if approved by the Board of Regents next week — will bring the total cost to replace cracking and damaged windows encasing the eight-year-old hospital to $52.5 million.

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More than 15 years after U.S. News & World Report started ranking the nation’s children’s hospitals by the specialty services they offer, the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital this year achieved a top-50 ranking in nine of 11 categories.

Five years after discovering damaged and cracking windows throughout its 7-year-old Stead Family Children’s Hospital, the University of Iowa is about one-third through its massive window-replacement project — with work expected to continue through the end of 2025 or into early 2026.

Under four months after launching a search for a new head of its nationally-ranked Stead Family Children’s Hospital — a position that has seen significant turnover for the past seven years — University of Iowa Health Care this week announced Jim Leste, vice president of operations for Children’s Minnesota, has accepted an offer.

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Seven years after a Cedar Rapids-based contractor first started feuding with the University of Iowa over its work on the towering Stead Family Children’s Hospital, Iowa’s high court has weighed in and sided with the university on part of its appeal — reversing an order to pay Modern Piping another $12.8 million.

Mason – who his parents described as smart beyond his years, with a dry sense of humor – was just spreading his teenage wings, gaining more independence, and looking forward to his first high school season of soccer, a sport he’s played most of his life – since age 4.

“I can still remember we talked about it a lot,” Jerre Stead, 80, told a crowd of hundreds Thursday on the University of Iowa campus, where in earned his bachelor’s degree in 1965. “Mary Joy said, ‘Someday, if we ever are fortunate enough, having had multiple children born here, we want to give something back for that. We want to make a difference at the university’.”

More than a year after the University of Iowa sued a pair of contractors it said was responsible for installing defective and “potentially life-safety threatening” windows on at least nine floors of its 14-story Stead Family Children’s Hospital, UI attorneys report an arbitration hearing is set for May 6-24, 2024.